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Afterwards
2023-12-06by Thomas Hardy When the Present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay, And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, Delicate-...
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After the Grand Perhaps
2023-12-06by Lucie Brock-Broido After vespers, after the first snow has fallen to its squalls, after New Wave, after the anorexics have curled into their geomet...
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At Burt Lake
2023-12-06by Tom Andrews To disappear into the right words and to be their meanings. . . October dusk. Pink scraps of clouds, a plum-colored sky. The sycamore t...
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by Charles Wright East of me, west of me, full summer. How deeper than elsewhere the dusk is in your own yard. Birds fly back and forth across the law...
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At Deep Midnight
2023-12-06by Minnie Bruce Pratt It's at dinnertime the stories come, abruptly, as they sit down to food predictable as ritual. Pink lady peas, tomatoes red ...
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After Callimachus
2023-12-06by Stephen Burt Cover me quietly, stone. I wrote verse. I meant little in life, blamed few and injured none; I tried to get along. My writings kept me...
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At Melville's Tomb
2023-12-06by Hart Crane Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge The dice of drowned men's bones he saw bequeath An embassy. Their numbers as he watched...
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After a Death
2023-12-06by Tomas Transtromer (Translated by Robert Bly) Once there was a shock that left behind a long, shimmering comet tail. It keeps us inside. It makes th...
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At Pegasus
2023-12-06by Terrance HayesThey are like those crazy womenwho tore Orpheuswhen he refused to sing,these men grindingin the strobe & black lightsof Pegasus. ...
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Affirmation
2023-12-06by Donald Hall To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a...